Buffie holding a Pomo cradle basket she made. Photo: John Bjornstrom.
Buffie weaving a basket at CIBA: California Indian Basket Association. Photo: Buffie Campbell.
Buffie Campbell
Pomo language, weaving, beading
Buffie Campbell is an indigenous, native woman from Sherwood Valley Rancheria, Noyo Reservation and Yokayo Rancheria. She is in her sixth year of Northern Pomo Language revitalization at Ukiah High School, where she teaches Pomo language and culture. Buffie also teaches Pomo basketweaving, Pomo regalia-making, Pomo dance, wild food, and medicine-harvesting. She is the part-time Executive Director at the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a nonprofit consortium of ten tribes tasked with the preservation and conservation of ancestral lands. Buffie sits on the Board of Directors for Near & Arnold’s School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education (SPACE), for which she also facilitates a bi-monthly Pomo coil basketweaving class.
Living Cultures Grant
2026
Yaʔ bayo:yin (“Our Gathering”)
With support from ACTA, Buffie Campbell will continue Ya? Bayo-Yin (“Our Gathering”), a bi-weekly community gathering at SPACE Performing Arts facility in Ukiah, teaching traditional Pomo/Indigenous weaving, plant identification, wild foods, and Northern Pomo language.
